In Defense of Latin in the Mass: The Case for the Church's Timeless Liturgical Language St. Catherine of Genoa If you use this book

If you use this book properly

with gold embossing

but without having made sufficient expiation on earth for his forgiven sins

to Pope Francis"

In Defense of Latin in the Mass: The Case for the Church's Timeless Liturgical Language St. Catherine of Genoa If you use this bookFor centuries, the use of Latin in the liturgy has been under attack. In these pages, Pope Benedict XIV (16751758) offers a convincing defense for the use of Latin as the normative liturgical language in the Mass of the Roman Catholic Church. Although the attacks over the use of Latin in Pope Benedict XIVs time stemmed primarily from the Protestant schism, the objections today are very similar. With charity and reason, the Holy Father seeks to bring